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A functional MRI study of 17 people blind since birth found that areas of visual cortex became active when the participants were asked to solve algebra problems
by OskarS 10y ago
A functional MRI study of 17 people blind since birth found that areas of visual cortex became active when the participants were asked to solve algebra problems, a team from Johns Hopkins reports in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.
Yeah, I'm gonna take this study with a grain of salt. Too many "fMRI studies of 17 people" have turned out to be barely disguised hooey.
- swiley 10y agoAt least their software probably works now.
- irremediable 10y agoJust because the bug was discovered doesn't mean it's been fixed in deployment. ;) Remember, as well, the bug was only half of that paper's findings; they also found fundamental flaws in the method. Besides which, there are widespread methodological flaws that IMO make more difference.
- Ericson2314 10y agoI heard the visual areas were predetermine simply because the oculor nerved terminates there. So if somebody was blind from birth they're claiming that some specialization might be hardcoded after all.
- neolefty 10y agoBiological GPGPU?
- norea-armozel 10y agoSo you're saying we can use blind people for BTC mining? :3 Sorry I couldn't help myself.
- jakub_h 10y agoThat sounds like Audio CAPTCHA.